Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This book provides a sort of unifying theory of sieve methods, thus providing an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students." - MAA Reviews, Donald L. Vestal, Missouri Western State University"This book is directed towards graduate students or advanced undergraduates, and arises from a series of seminars and graduate lectures given over the last decade or so. The interested student should find that this book is a useful introduction to the subject that makes an effort to avoid those aspects of the subject which might be unduly heavy going. There is a useful set of exercises on each chapter that should keep such a student's mind suitably active."
Mathematical Reviews
Synopsis
This book provides a motivated introduction to sieve theory. Rather than focus on technical details which can obscure the beauty of the theory, the authors focus on examples and applications, developing the theory in parallel. The text can be used for a senior level undergraduate course or an introductory graduate course in analytic number theory, and non-experts can gain a quick introduction to the techniques of the subject.
Table of Contents
1. Some basic notions; 2. Some elementary sieves; 3. The normal order method; 4. The Turan sieve; 5. The sieve of Eratosthenes; 6. Brun's sieve; 7. Selberg's sieve; 8. The large sieve; 9. The Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem; 10. The lower bound sieve; 11. New directions in sieve theory; Bibliography.